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44 sources
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Family testimony

Family chronology and recollections, supplied October 2026.

Relationships, formal names and nicknames, four-child family outline, reported parental years, Charles's gravestone date, and George's reported cancer. Unpublished family information.

Unpublished family information.
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Original document / archival collection

United States census, 1950, Wisconsin, Grant County, Cuba City, ED 22-15, sheet 1, household 5, lines 19–25, begun April 3, 1950.

George's supplemental answers are on sample line 20. National Archives, schedule 6483690. Figure 1.

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03
Index / compiled genealogy

PeopleLegacy, George L. Brownell.

Derivative birth, death, burial, and family entry; exact vital details remain subject to original-record comparison.

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04
Index / compiled genealogy

SortedByName, Brownell index, page 51.

Numident-derived Florette entry with parental names, aliases, birthplace, and vital dates. April 18 is the indexed birthday; April 19 is the family recollection. Administrative identifiers are not reproduced.

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05
Local history / period material

Wisconsin Historical Society, Architecture and History Inventory 46556, Coates House, 250 Southwest Road, Platteville.

Property history naming Leila, ownership years, and nursing-home use.

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06
Photograph / collection

Pbergerd, Leonard and Caroline Coates House, Wikimedia Commons.

Modern photograph, exposure date unspecified, uploaded April 11, 2025; CC0 1.0. Figure 2.

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07
Original document / archival collection

United States census, 1950, Illinois, Jo Daviess County, Galena, ED 43-9, sheet 27, household 269, lines 5–13, begun April 21, 1950.

Original heading names Brownell Nursing Home. National Archives, schedule 1264195. Figures 3–4.

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08
Local history / period material

Galena Foundation, US Marine Hospital, Nash Sanitarium to Present.

Later history and image credits. Primary references include Galena Advertiser, July 20 and October 19, 1950, and Jo Daviess County Deed Books 126, page 354 and 136, page 505; those originals are not reproduced here.

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10
Original document / archival collection

First Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon of the Marine Hospital Service of the United States for the Year 1872, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1872, page 20.

Galena entry; PDF page 26 in the digitized bound volume. Figure 5.

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Original document / archival collection

U.S. Treasury report in 36th Congress, 1st Session, House Executive Document 75, April 24, 1860, pages 27–28.

Galena Marine Hospital section within St. Louis Custom-House and Post Office. Contemporary assessment of operating cost and demand.

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12
Index / compiled genealogy

PeopleLegacy, William Henry Brownell.

Derivative Whig Cemetery and family entry.

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13
Index / compiled genealogy

PeopleLegacy, Lelia Dickson Price.

Derivative Whig Cemetery entry; September 17, 1961 death date.

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14
Index / compiled genealogy

FamilySearch, Beula May Brownell, LJ17-M9D.

Compiled public summary naming William and Lelia; possible California chapter, with original birth record still needed.

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15
Index / compiled genealogy

Ancestry, Beula May Brownell compiled profile.

Conflicting California birthplace; used only to preserve the unresolved locality.

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16
Index / compiled genealogy

PeopleLegacy, Josiah Harland Brownell.

Derivative relationship entry linking the parents and brothers; compatible exact birth and death dates.

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17
Original document / archival collection

State, December 1985, issue 284, page 63.

U.S. Department of State obituary of Josiah H. Brownell. PDF page 65. Figure 10 joins two original column excerpts in reading order.

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Original document / archival collection

Foreign Service Journal, July 1949, personnel-transfer listing.

Josiah H. Brownell, Bogota to Cali; original contemporary notice.

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19
Original document / archival collection

Polk's Wisconsin State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1905–1906, printed page 306.

Original Dickeysville entry; Figure 11. Allen County Public Library copy, Internet Archive.

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20
Local history / period material

Charles H. Bartlett, Cuba City Memories, 1970.

Retrospective memoir, reproduced by Historical Jottings from Cuba City, April 2, 2020. Garage origins, division of work, move, and firefighter recollection.

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21
Local history / period material

Abbey Holt, Ford Garage and Auditorium, Clio, 2021–2022.

Building history and historic photographs, credited to the Cuba City Centennial history. Cover photograph and Figure 12.

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22
Local history / period material

Wisconsin Historical Society, Architecture and History Inventory 44298, 109 North Main Street, Cuba City.

Property and business chronology; its 1926 death statement conflicts with the family gravestone year and Bartlett.

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23
Local history / period material

City of Cuba City, Fire Department History.

Municipal account of equipment, the 1915 chassis transaction, and later truck.

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Original document / archival collection

Cuba City News-Herald, May 23, 1919, Fordson advertisement.

Original printed caption names Charles and Henry Fush; reproduced in It's a dandy the Fordson tractor, Historical Jottings from Cuba City. Figure 13.

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Local history / period material

Loeffelholz Brothers Ford Float, Historical Jottings from Cuba City, July 2, 2018.

Later identification of Hannah and her relationship to Charles. Exact event date unspecified. Figure 21.

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Local history / period material

Loeffelholz Brothers Garage, Historical Jottings from Cuba City, September 3, 2018.

Named crew photograph, credited to Cuba City Centennial history. Figure 14.

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Local history / period material

Cuba City News-Herald, February 20, 1920, garage expansion account, transcribed in A Swell Garage.

Historical Jottings from Cuba City, February 20, 2020. Parts-counter image credited to Cuba City Centennial history; Figure 15.

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Local history / period material

Cuba City News-Herald, May 7, May 14, June 11, and July 16, 1920.

Delivery notices transcribed in Calling All Drivers, Historical Jottings from Cuba City, May 3, 2020. The surviving reproductions are transcriptions rather than complete newspaper pages.

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29
Local history / period material

Cuba City News-Herald, July 9 and October 15, 1920.

Alteration notice and original Auditorium program, reproduced in Face Lift for the Loeffelholz Bros., Historical Jottings from Cuba City. Figure 20.

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30
Original document / archival collection

Motography, March 23, 1918, volume XIX, number 12, page 548.

Original exhibitor comment signed by the firm; Figure 19. Internet Archive.

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31
Local history / period material

Cuba City News-Herald, January 26, 1917, New Picture Machine.

Transcribed in Moving Pictures in Cuba, Historical Jottings from Cuba City, October 9, 2010.

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32
Local history / period material

Cuba City News-Herald, late 1917, Ford-price advertisement.

Exact issue unspecified; reproduced in Cars Are a Bargain Even During Wartime, Historical Jottings from Cuba City. Figure 16.

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Local history / period material

Cuba City News-Herald, December 20, 1918, Ford advertisement.

Reproduced in Is There a Better Car Than the Ford, Historical Jottings from Cuba City. Figure 17.

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Local history / period material

Cuba City News-Herald, September 5, 1919, Ford Sedan advertisement.

Reproduced in The Favorite Family Car, Historical Jottings from Cuba City. Figure 18.

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35
Original document / archival collection

The Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, October 16, 1955, Margaret Gubbels Splinter obituary.

Original clipping preserved by Friede-Abrahamson Genealogy; establishes Elizabeth's sibling network. The clipping is cited rather than reproduced in full.

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36
Index / compiled genealogy

Family Group Record, compiled December 14, 2010, pages 482 and 492.

Mary Henrietta Gubbels's proposed parental couple and Joseph Charles Lange's baptismal sponsors. Compiled transcription, not an original register image.

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37
Original document / archival collection

WIGenWeb Grant County, funeral-card collection, PDF page 15.

Original Elizabeth M. Loeffelholz card, Siegert's, Cuba City; probable identification. Figure 22.

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38
Index / compiled genealogy

Charles Martin Loeffelholz, Find a Grave memorial 170183300.

Memorial link accompanying the family's May 24, 1923 gravestone information; the exact date is attributed to the family record.

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39
Original document / archival collection

MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, City of Little Rock, Allison Collection, January 1943, Seek And Ye Shall Find.

ACME image and named caption. Figure 23.

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Original document / archival collection

YANK The Army Weekly, British edition, January 31, 1943, volume 1, number 33, page 9.

Original image and caption; Figure 26.

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41
Original document / archival collection

U.S. War Department, Papuan Campaign The Buna–Sanananda Operation November 16 1942 to January 23 1943, 1944, pages 9–25.

Official campaign history, HyperWar transcription. Figures 24–25 reproduce the original map and supply photograph. Context only; neither identifies George's individual route.

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Original document / archival collection

U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum, Shoes and The Army.

Historical footwear-consumption and repair account, used for campaign context.

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43
Local history / period material

City of Cuba City, Other Leaders.

Remembered scouting leaders and committee members; George's specific office and dates are not assigned.

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44
Photograph / collection

Randy von Liski, Stillman House Galena Illinois.

Photograph taken June 28, 2020, uploaded 2022, offered as CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Additional view of the separate Stillman property, available at the source link.

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